If you are in the language service industry, you are undoubtedly on the lookout for ways in which you can improve the productivity of your team – more translated words in less time – that’s what drives your clients as well as you. Automated Machine Translation (MT) seems to be the logical step forward in today’s world of content explosion and tightening deadlines. However, for most Language Service Providers (LSPs), the challenge lies in the actual implementation of this sophisticated technology.

For this reason, it is important that no matter what translation management tools you use, it should be integrated with a powerful MT engine that is reliable, scalable, flexible, and can be trained and re-trained constantly for maximum efficiency and quick turnaround times.

In today’s fast-paced world of content explosion on the Internet, the need for translating this organically growing content with the help of machines has become inevitable. While post-editing the machine translated content will always be required, choosing the right MT features will ensure that translators do not spend countless frustrating hours on those edits.

In this Kantanwebinar, The KantanMT Professional Services Team, Tony O’Dowd and Louise Faherty (Quinn) will show how you can improve the translation productivity of your team, and manage effort estimations and project deadlines better with a powerful MT engine.

The KantanPEX Rule Editor enables members of KantanMT reduce the amount of manual post-editing required for a particular translation by creating, testing and deploying post-editing automation rules on their Machine Translation engines (client profiles).

The editor allows users to evaluate the output of a PEX (Post-Editing Automation) rule on a sample of translated content without needing to upload it to a client profile and run translation jobs. Users can enter up to three pairs of search and replace rules, which will be run in descending order on your content.

How to use the KantanMT PEX Rule Editor

Login into your KantanMT account using your email and your password.

You will be directed to the ‘Client Profiles’ tab in the ‘My Client Profiles’ page. The last profile you were working on will be ‘Active’ and marked in bold.

To use the ‘PEX-Rule Editor’ with a profile other than the ‘Active’ profile, click on the new profile name to select that profile for use with the ‘Kantan PEX-Rule editor’.

Then click the ‘KantanMT’ tab and select ‘PEX Editor’ from the drop-down menu.

You will be directed to the ‘PEX Editor’ page.

Type the content you wish to test on, in the ‘Test Content’ box.

Type the content you wish to search for in the ‘PEX Search Rules’ box.

Type what you want the replacement to be in the ‘PEX Replacement Rules’ box and click on the ‘Test PEX Rules’ button to test the PEX-Rules.

The results of your PEX-Rules will now appear in the ‘Output’ box.

Give the rules you have created a name by typing in the ‘Rule Name’ box.

Select the profile you wish to apply this rule(s) to and then click on the ‘Upload Rule’ button.

Additional Information

KantanMT PEX editor helps reduce the amount of manual post-editing required for a particular translation, hence, reducing project turn-around times and costs. For additional information on PEX-RULES and the Kantan PEX-Rule editor please click on the links below. For more details about KantanMT localization products and ways of improving work productivity and efficiency please contact us at info@kantanmt.com.

What is the KantanAPI?

KantanAPIenables KantanMTclients to interact with KantanMT as an on-demand web service. It also provides a number of different services including translation, file upload and retrieval and job launches.

With the KantanAPI you not only have the opportunity to integrate KantanMT into your workflow systems but also the ability to receive on-demand translations from your KantanMT engines. All these services make the experience with Machine Translation as seamless as possible.

Accessing KantanAPI

Please Note: The API is only available to KantanMT members in the EnterprisePlan.

To access the KantanMT API you will first need your ‘API token’. This token can be found in the ‘API’ tab on the ‘My Client Profiles’ page of your KantanMT account.

Once you have your token you can use the API in a number of ways

Using the API tab on the ‘My Client Profiles’ page in the KantanMT Web interface

Using the REST interface via HTTP GET or POST requests

Using one of our various connectors, which are built using our KantanAPI

For more details on implementing your API solution via the REST interface, please see the full API technical documentation at the following link:

How to use KantanAPI?

You will be directed to the ‘My Client Profiles’ page. You will be in the ‘Client Profiles’ section of the ‘My Client Profiles’ page. The last profile you were working on will be ‘Active’.

If you wish to use the ‘KantanAPI’ with another profile other than the ‘Active’ profile. Click on the profile you wish to use the ‘KantanAPI’ with, then click on the ‘API’ tab.

You will be directed to the ‘API Settings’ page. Now click on the ‘Launch API’ button.

A ‘Launch API’ pop-up will now appear on your screen asking you ‘Are you sure you want to launch the API?’ Click ‘OK’.

The ‘API Status’ will now change from ‘offline’ to ‘initialising’, the ‘Launch API’ button will now change to ‘Launching API’ .

When your KantanAPI launches the ‘API Status’ will now change from ‘initialising’ to ‘running’, the ‘Launching API’ button changes to ‘Shutdown API’ and you should now be able to click on the ‘Translate’ button.

Type the text you wish to translate in the text box and click on the ‘Translate’ button.

The translated text will now appear in the ‘Translated Text’ box. If you wish to make any changes to the translated text simply place the cursor inside the ‘Translated Text’ box and make the changes. Save these changes by clicking the ‘Retrain Engine’ button.

Test if your engine was successfully retrained by clicking the ‘Translate’ button. The retrained text will now appear in the ‘Translated Text’ box.

If you don’t wish to retrain your engine and you are happy with the translated text in the ‘Translated Text’ box. You may continue translating other text or shut down your KantanAPI by clicking the ‘Shutdown API’ button.

When you click the ‘Shutdown API’ button a pop-up will now appear asking you ‘Are you sure you want to shout down the API?’ Click ‘OK’.

The ‘Shutdown API’ button will now change to ‘Terminating API’, the ‘API status’ will now change from ‘running’ to ‘terminating’ and you shouldn’t be able to click on the ‘Translate’ or ‘Retrain Engine’ button.

You will now be directed back to the initial screen on the API Settings page.

Additional Support

KantanAPI™ is one of the various machine translation services offered by KantanMT to improve productivity for our clients and also enable them to be more efficient. For more information on KantanAPI or any KantanMT products please contact us at info@kantanmt.com.

For more details on the KantanMT API please see the following links and the video below:

What is Gap Analysis and Kantan TimeLine ?

Gap Analysis identifies and reports any untranslated words in the training data set and allows you to take preventive measures quickly by fine tuning training data and filling data gaps.The KantanTimeLine™ provides a chronological history of activities for each engine and uses version control for precise management of released and production-ready engines.

Using Kantan TimeLine and Gap Analysis:

In KantanBuildAnalytics, click the Gap Analysis tab to see the amount of untranslated words that remain in the generated translations. You will be directed to the Gap Analysis page, where you will see a breakdown of any gaps in your training data.

A table appears with 3 headings: ‘#’, Unknown Word, Reference/Source, KantanMT Output. Under those headings you will find details of any untranslated words, their source and the KantanMT Output.

Click Download to download your Gap Analysis report.

Note: You can also click the Timeline tab to view your profiles’s Timeline, which is essentially a record of the changes you have made on your engine.

This is one of the many features provided in KantanBuildAnalytics, which aids Localization Project Managers in improving an engine’s quality after its initial training. To see other features used in KantanBuildAnalytics suite please see the links below.

Translation Error Rate (TER) is a method used by Machine Translation specialists to determine the amount of Post-Editing required for machine translation jobs. The automatic metric measures the number of actions required to edit a translated segment inline with one of the reference translations. It’s quick to use, language independent and corresponds with post-editing effort. When tuning your KantanMT engine, we recommend a maximum score of 30%. A lower score means less post-editing is required!

How to use TER in KantanBuildAnalytics™

The TER scores for your engine are displayed in the KantanBuildAnalytics™ feature. You can get a quick overview or snapshot in the summary tab. But for a more in depth analysis and to calculate the amount of post-editing required for the engine’s MT output select the ‘TER Score’ tab, which takes you to the ‘TER Scores’ page.

Place your cursor on the ‘TER Scores Chart’ to see the ‘Translation Error Rate’ for each segment. If you hold the cursor over the segment, a pop-up will appear on your screen with details of each segment under these headings, ‘Segment no.’, ‘Score’, ‘Source’, ‘Reference/Target’ and ‘KantanMT Output’.

To see a breakdown of the ‘TER Scores’ for each segment in a table format scroll down. You will now see a table with the headings ‘No’, ‘Source’, ‘Reference/Target’, ‘KantanMT Output’ and ‘Score’.

To see an even more in depth breakdown of a particular ‘Segment’ click on the ‘Triangle’ beside each number.

To download the ‘TER Scores’ of all segments click on the ‘Download’ button on the ‘TER Scores’ page.

This is one of the many features included in KantanBuildAnalytics, which can help the Localization Project Manager improve an engine’s quality after its initial training. To see other features used in KantanBuildAnalytics please see the links below.

What is F-Measure ?

F-Measure is an automated measurement that determines the precision and recall capabilities of a KantanMT engine. F-Measure measures enables you to determine the quality and performance of your KantanMT engine

To see the accuracy and performance of your engine click on the ‘F-measure Scores’ tab. You will now be directed to the ‘F-measure Scores’ page.

Place your cursor on the ‘F-measure Scores Chart’ to see the individual score of each segment. A pop-up will now appear on your screen with details of the segment under these headings, ‘Segment no.’, ‘Score’, ‘Source’,‘Reference/Target’ and ‘KantanMT Output’.

To see the ‘F-measure Scores’ of each segment in a table format scroll down. You will now see a table with the headings ‘No’, ‘Source’, ‘Reference/Target’, ‘KantanMT Output’ and ‘Score’.

To see an even more in depth breakdown of a particular ‘Segment’ click on the Triangle beside the number of the segment you wish to view.

To reuse the engine as Test Data click on the ‘Reuse as Test Data’. When you do so, the ‘Reuse as Test Data’ button will change to ‘Delete Test Data’.

To download the ‘F-measure Scores’, ‘BLEU Score’ and ‘TER Scores’ of all segments click on the ‘Download’ button on either the ‘F-measure Scores’, ‘BLEU Score’ or ‘TER Scores’ page.

This is one of the features provided by Kantan BuildAnalytics to improve an engine’s quality after its initial training .To see other features used by Kantan BuildAnalytics please click on the link below .To get more information about KantanMT and the services we provide please contact our support team at at info@kantanmt.com.

It can often be challenging to measure the fluency of your Machine Translation engine, and that’s where automatic metrics become very useful tool for the localization engineer.

BLEU is one of the metrics used in KantanAnalytics for quality evaluation. BLEU Score is quick to use, inexpensive to operate, language independent, and correlates highly with human evaluation. It is the most widely used automated method of determining the quality of machine translation.

How to use BLEU ?

To check the fluency of your KantanMT engine click on the ‘BLEU Scores’ tab. You will now be directed to the ‘BLEU Score’ page.

Place your cursor on the ‘Bleu Scores Chart’ to see the individual fluency score of each segment. . A pop-up will now appear on your screen with details of the segment under these headings, ‘Segment no.’, ‘Score’, ‘Source’, ‘Reference/Target’ and ‘KantanMT Output’.

To see the ‘Bleu Scores’ of each segment in a table format scroll down. You will now see a table with the headings ‘No’, ‘Source’, ‘Reference/Target’, ‘KantanMT Output’ and ‘Score’.

To see an even more in depth breakdown of a particular ‘Segment’ click on the ‘Triangle’ beside the number of the segment you wish to view.

To download the ‘BLEU Score’ of all segments click on the ‘Download’ button on the ‘BLEU Score’ page.

This is one of the features provided by Kantan BuildAnalytics to improve an engine’s quality after its initial training .To see other features used by Kantan BuildAnalytics please click on the link below .To get more information about KantanMT and the services we provide please contact our support team at at info@kantanmt.com.